Film articles by Witney Seibold

In its look, Christopher Smith‘s film “Black Death,” set in the early 15th century, and following a group of hard-ass knights on a quest to rid the world of witchcraft, looks like another dull action-laden period piece in the line of equally dull features like “300” and “Centurion” and “King Arthur;” that is: the action scenes are cut so quickly and shot so haphazardly that you can’t really tell what’s going on in the film for long stretches. (more…)

Evidently, the hosts of Crave Online’s other podcast “The Idiot Box” has taken exception to William Bibbiani and I. They have been good enough to promote out podcast, but we have not yet been good enough to return the favor. By way of introducing a rivalry, we decide to swap hosts for our episode after next. (more…)

The most refreshing thing about Lisa Cholodenko‘s “The Kids Are All Right” is that it’s a queer drama that doesn’t bank on the characters’ sexuality as a sticking point of interest. Too many queer films assume that the characters are interesting merely because they are gay, and don’t bother to write anything else memorable about them. (more…)

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I have written hundreds of film reviews, dozens of long essays on classics films, complete series overviews in my Series Project, a few rounds of an entertaning games called Name That Script, and even the odd book review for good measure.

All of my articles are succinct, professionally written (the occasional typo notwithstanding), and, one would hope, engaging and entertaining.